Ventures

The Black Educators Advocates Network exists to transform the environment, practices, and policies that affect the educational experience for Black educators, administrators, students, and parents. Founded by Black educators who recognized the desperate need for an educational experience that considers and centers around Black students, BEAN is committed to transforming the learning environment for students of color. BEAN centers its efforts around community building, research and discovery, and bold advocacy.

Bridge 2 Hope St. Louis is a parent-led organization with a mission to educate, empower and activate parents and grandparents to disrupt the system of inequity, fight unjust policies, and advocate for their children’s right to quality educational options. Bridge 2 Hope St. Louis empowers parents and their children through intentional outreach to the most vulnerable communities with a focus on on building strong communal relationships.

Diversity in Leadership Institute’s mission is to create equitable outcomes for Black and Latinx students by building a movement of racially diverse and culturally responsive public education leaders. Their vision is that leaders in Californian public schools will reflect and honor the diversity of the communities they serve and achieve equity for Black and Latinx students. Diversity in Leadership Institute identifies, cultivates, and activates Black and Latinx leaders and allies to serve as change agents, to close the achievement and opportunity gaps for children of color, through growing talent pipelines for excellent school leadership and advocacy. The DILI vision is to build and accelerate strong school leaders and advocates of color, to create equitable K-12 school systems in the state of California, ultimately improving the academic, social and emotional well-being for youth of color.

Innovation For Equity (IFE) is a network of Black changemakers across the education ecosystem – leaders in PK-12, postsecondary, research, technology, and business – committed to disrupting the status quo and transforming the life outcomes of Black learners of all ages. By connecting and cultivating Black leaders in education to build collective power and scale innovative solutions, IFE reimagines a future where Black learners thrive across the nation.

For nearly 30 years, the Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) has partnered with schools and districts to transform schools so that students who are traditionally underserved and underperforming graduate prepared for success in college and careers.

Women of Color Education Collaborative (WOCEC)
ISA is launching WOCEC as a response to the effects that both the events of the last year that brought racial equity to the forefront and the pandemic have had on education and educational leaders. The goal of WOCEC is to create a network of thriving women of color superintendents by supporting leaders with a program designed to enhance their leadership skills and capacity while also focusing on healing and building strong bonds between participants. This is a unique opportunity to care for yourself while leaning into your strengths as a leader. We will focus on building upon existing strengths and capabilities to increase your ability to be strategic about the work to advance equity.

LatinxEd is an education non-profit committed to investing in Latinx leadership and creating learning environments that expand educational equity and opportunity in North Carolina. Our works calls on our community to reimagine and redesign what equitable, inclusive learning environments and experiences could look like that truly recognize, honor, and serve the diverse needs of the Latinx immigrant community in North Carolina.

Lead Co/laborative incubates Puerto Rico’s next-generation of diverse educational champions with one central aim in mind — to prepare students for a lifetime of learning and opportunity. The Lead Co/laborative team looks to achieve this mission by equipping educational leaders with the tools needed to transform educational experiences and improve student outcomes.

Leadership for Liberation supports principals, particularly principals of color, in creating anti-racist school cultures that disrupt of racial oppression from the individual- to the systems-level.

Men of Color in Education Leadership (MCEL), an organization of leaders from across the educational spectrum, is hyper-focused on eliminating achievement and opportunity gaps for all students. Based on research and lived experiences, MCEL strongly supports highly effective leaders of color who are uniquely positioned to disrupt current ecosystems, lead equity throughout education, and serve as critical levers to student success.